Browsing Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Smith, Randall (Randall D.)"
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Behind the screens: How magazines organize for digital success
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Change has dominated the media landscape for nearly two decades as digital content creation and delivery mushroomed from the work of secluded upstarts to that of society-influencing giants. Magazine publishers have found ... -
Business models of digital longform publications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Despite a widespread conviction that longform reporting, one of the most established and respected genres of journalism, will become unsustainable because of the challenges posed by the internet and the digital environment, ... -
Collaboration and separation : how news companies find innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This research examines issues arising when employees at news media companies attempt to collaborate with each other to create, develop and execute strategies intended to enhance the organization's financial standing. The ... -
Data journalism and democracy: how American mass media framed the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States using data visualization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)The purpose of this study is to explore the role of data visualization in the media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States by focusing on datavisualization projects from The New York Times and The ... -
The elite media framing the emerging markets : a textual analysis of Mongolian case in the Wall Street Journal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This textual analysis addresses how The Wall Street Journal framed Mongolian economic and political image in the global capital market from 2012 to ... -
How people respond to advocacy messages: the impact of message source and media platform on attitude in a nonprofit environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This paper investigates the role of message source and (social) media channels in determining consumer response to nonprofit advertising. After reviewing relevant literature, a summary model that focuses on attitude change, ... -
Online feminist publications as social enterprises: Diversifying revenue streams through corporate social responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)This qualitative study examined how feminist online publications can adopt social enterprise business models. The focus group analysis of the audiences of Refinery29, Bustle, HelloGiggles, and Jezebel first explored the ... -
Paying for online news: what provides value and for whom?
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Reader perception of the usefulness and credibility of journalistic automotive reviews
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The aim of this research is to examine the usefulness of journalistic automotive reviews from the perspective of readers making purchase decisions. Additionally, this study also looked at the perceived credibility of the ...